Improvement in processes of transferring patterns to fabrics



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD HUDSON, OF OHORLTON GUM HARDY, HENRY GRIMSHAW, OF MANCHESTER,AND CHRISTOPHER ORONSHAW, (EXEOUTOR OF JOHN BRIGGS, DEOEASED,) OFBOLTON, COUNTY OF LANCASTER, ENGLAND.

IMPROVEMENT lN PROCESSES 0F TRANSFERRING PATTERNS T0 FABRICS.

, Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 220,6), dated October14, 1879; application filed July 10, 1879.

the county of Lancaster, England, have invented new and usefullmprovements in Ornamenting and Transferring Patterns to Fabrics, ofwhich the following is a specification.

In domestic embroidery it is customary to use a paper upon which thepattern to be embroidered is printed from a surface-block or otherwise.This paper is stitched upon the fabric to be embroidered, and when theembroidery is complete the paper upon which the pattern had been printedis torn out.

Our invention consists in transferring the pattern to the fabric to beornamented or embroidered by printing the pattern-paper from asurface-block or otherwise, as usual, with the design to be produced ina bituminous substance or varnish, and transferring the said pattern tothe fabric when required by the application of heat to the back of thepaper on which the pattern has been printed in bituminous substance orvarnish, thereby cansing the bitumen o-r varnish to adhere to the fabricto be ornamented or embroidered.

By means of this invention a beautiful, clear pattern of any color ismarked on fabrics,

and when the pattern is to serve as a guide for embroidery the troubleof tearing away the paper, asnow customary, is avoided, and cleaner workis obtained.

Another advantage of this invention is, that parties buying thepattern-papers can apply them to the fabric and produce the sameimpression as by block.

We do not limit ourselves to any special process or apparatus forprinting the patterns in bituminous substance or varnish on thepattern-paper, as they may be printed by blocks or cylinders, orotherwise.

I Having thus fully described our invention, we claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent As an improvement in ornamen ting ortransferring patterns to fabrics, printing the patterns with anybituminous substance or varnish of any color on the pattern-paper, andtransferring them to the fabric by the applica tion of heat,substantially as described.

RICHARD HUDSON.

HENRY GRIMSHAW.

CHRISTOPHER ORONSHAVV,

Executor.

Witnesses:

G. A. BARLOW, J. W. APPLEBY.

